Travel Nurse RN - ICU/Critical Care - $2,238 per week in Salt Lake City, UT

Job Title: Registered Nurse (RN)

Job Specialty: Float Pool ICU CCU

Job Duration: 13 Weeks

Shift: 12-hour night shift, 3x12 Hours

Guaranteed Hours: 36 Hours per week

Experience: One year of experience preferred. Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty.

License: State RN license or RN license from a participating state in the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) required.

Certifications

• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) - Required
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) - Required
• NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) Certification - Required
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - Required for certain locations
  
  

Must-Have: EPIC knowledge

Job Description

• Assume responsibility and accountability for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with both the healthcare team and the patient/family to identify and meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient.
• Promote the optimal health, well-being, and safety of the patient by utilizing the nursing process in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act.
• Demonstrate personal accountability for relationship-based care, organizational mission, and core values.
• Assess patients' physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, and review of medical records and clinical data.
• Evaluate patients' response to interventions to ensure optimal outcomes.
• Develop and implement patient care plans in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards.
• Demonstrate competency in a variety of therapeutic/diagnostic interventions including, but not limited to, IVs, incision/wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections.
• Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect the health, safety, and rights of each patient.
• Provide patient and family education through the assessment of learning readiness, needs, and abilities. Evaluate the effectiveness of teaching.
• Recognize the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient preferences, values, and needs.
• Provide relationship-based care that respects cultural differences and diversity.
• Delegate to non-RN personnel in accordance with State Board of Nursing and hospital policy.
• Use time, personnel, equipment, and supplies effectively to provide high-quality, cost-effective patient care.
• Serve as a professional role model for all staff demonstrating ethical, legal, and professional nursing processes.
• Manage resources and patient flow through matching nursing competencies with patient and unit needs.
• Use standards of care, hospital policies/procedures, and regulatory guidelines to guide practice.
• Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making for quality patient care.
• Precept/mentor new staff or nursing students as needed.
• Seek learning opportunities and continue education to maintain skills and competence in clinical practice or role performance.
• Maintain professional records for evidence of competency and lifelong learning.
• Evaluate personal integrity and nursing practice against professional standards and guidelines. Take action to achieve goals identified during the evaluation process.
• Demonstrate a commitment to the organization through participation in hospital and unit-based meetings.
• Understand the value of measurement and the importance of continuous quality improvement data. Use quality measures to improve performance and accountability for patient outcomes and experiences.
• Participate in unit-based Quality Improvement, evidence-based practice, and research activities.
• Use current healthcare research and other evidence to expand clinical knowledge and enhance role performance.